One of the side effects of the medication is sleepiness, because it is a potent agonist of the histamine receptor...so aside from its antidepressive effect, it is also an antihistamine with “traditional” antihistamine effect...drowsiness.

Well, I didn’t fall asleep right away last night...likely because of my resumption of Dexedrine...and neither “drowsiness” nor “sleepiness” can even begin to describe it.

It was pure hell. I knew I wanted to sleep, but couldn’t - not right away, anyway - and it was like my brain was half-off, and I was heavy-limbed to the extreme. I couldn’t even get out of bed. It took herculean effort just to turn over.

I felt like one of those African savannah animals that had been shot with a tranquilizer dart on the old Mutual of Omaha show.

Then there was getting up. I was awake, but every part of my body was telling me to nestle in. I hit snooze a few too many times, and combined with how slow I was moving, I ended up being 20 minutes late for work.

I’m going to have to take it a little earlier in the evening so I am not so slug-like in the morning. Or perhaps the sedation effect will lessen with time…I hope so, at least.

So it is bothersome, but I am not complaining, really. I did choose this med, and wanted to try it as part of a two-prong attack on my depression along with bupropion (Wellbutrin). A bit of time will tell.

I’ve dragged booty before in my life, but this was a new level of sloth.

And for sure, the morning Dex helped a lot, but it was like the usual Dex feeling with a dash of I-want-my-pillow on top.